Pierre Soulages

25.09.2025

Pierre Soulages
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
October 17, 2025 – January 11, 2026

“Thanks to exceptional loans from the Musée Soulages, the exhibition brings together 130 works produced between the 1940s and the early 2000s, including 25 never shown before.You’ll discover a group of paintings on paper, long kept in the artist’s studio, which testify to the constancy and freedom with which Soulages approached this medium.

After favouring walnut stain in the early years, Pierre Soulages often returned to the material used by cabinet-makers, whose qualities of transparency and opacity, and luminosity in contrast with the white of the paper, he loved. He would also use ink and gouache for works whose generally small formats yielded nothing to their formal power and diversity.”

Musèe Du Luxembourg, Paris.